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...Despite all these declarations of strength and significance, the system is in rehabilitation mode....
...We need new resources,” said Jeanmarie Perrone, founding director of Penn Medicine Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy....
...“We’ve seen even in the last couple of weeks increased interest in enrolment,” said Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator....
...Almost two-thirds of countries have disrupted rehabilitation services. “It’s like an X-ray disclosing how we have failed to meet the needs of people living with NCDs,” Dr Mikkelsen says....
...No vaguely affordable US public healthcare coverage could work without compulsory insurance....
...According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 47,600 people died in 2018 after overdosing on opioids including heroin and painkillers such as fentanyl....
...This ended with a 1998 settlement guaranteeing $206bn in payments to 46 US states, over a period of 25 years, to cover costs of healthcare payouts and other related claims....
...I don’t think anyone can rest on their laurels until we have a solution....
...Chris Brooks, Ventec’s chief strategy officer, told the FT that the joint venture delivery “commitment remains unchanged, and we continue to move forward as quickly as possible”....
...However, nobody can rest on their laurels: the focus on suppliers is likely to only increase in the future, the panel argued....
...Ken Kaitin, director of Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, says that pharma companies do not factor in what they spent developing a drug when they come to price it....
...Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said he believed Google was not the best entity to help people fight off the disease of addiction....
...The value of the diagnostics, physical rehabilitation and surgery segment alone is set to pass $14bn next year....
...Manufacturing, airlines and healthcare services companies are also vulnerable to higher labour costs....
...In 1996 it was merged with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)....
...“This is not the cure for brain injury,” said Dr Brent Masel, medical director of the Transitional Learning Center in Galveston, Texas, a brain injury rehabilitation centre....
...From its plant in Hull, Smith & Nephew manufactures the specialised dressing for “woundcare” technology that can cut the length of hospital stays and healthcare costs....
...Strange Shores , by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 The king of Icelandic crime fiction is not resting on his laurels, as the valedictory Strange Shores proves...
...State rehabilitation centres are few and far between and after-care, to address the psychological and cultural roots of alcoholism, is rarely available. However, there are some signs of enlightenment....
...Each prisoner costs about $29,000 a year, and that figure is set to rise because of the rapidly ageing prison population and healthcare costs....
...The tests will take place at the Shepherd Center, a spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation hospital and clinical research centre in Atlanta, Georgia....
...“Their mental healthcare needs need to be addressed while they are in care and when they return home.”...
...The Indian government has been slow in providing affordable healthcare cover, including medicines, to its own poor....
...For the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest healthcare philanthropy, this was its entry point into juvenile justice reform....
...Many were hit hard by the September 11 attacks, particularly those around the World Trade Center....
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